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...prosody; 4) a learned if somewhat irritable gloss on 19th century literature; 5) a great deal of biographical information about Pushkin, which would be more helpful if it were collected in one chunk, not squirreled about the entire work; and 6) repeated masterly demonstrations of the art of literary insult. Dostoevsky, for instance, is described as "a much overrated, sentimental, and Gothic novelist of the time...
Calculated Insults. De Gaulle pursued the same tactics throughout France. He was followed by what Aron calls his "Trojan horse," a column of administrators specially trained in London and Algiers to take over the French government. In southern France, the Communists had seized power in majorities, but De Gaulle's well-schooled lieutenants eased them out with a mininum of bloodshed. De Gaulle went out of his way to insult the Communists publicly, no matter how bravely they lad fought in the Resistance. In Toulouse, when a Communist in proletarian overalls casually introduced himself, De Gaulle snapped: "Stand...
...bedroom door, the bedroom door clouts Clouseau in the suffix, Clouseau takes off as though there were lead as well as copper in his alloy. When next seen he is digging himself out of a gravel driveway two stories below and cringing as the chief inspector scornfully adds insult to injury. "Clouseau!" the old brute bellows. "You're off the case...
...into a boat-length lead. From then on, they unconcernedly looked back at their pursuers for the length of the Olympic-size 2,000-meter course. At the finish, the coxswain took the stroke up to 40 for kicks, and California slid across in 6 min. 31 sec. Adding insult to injury, another Western crew, the University of Washington, was second, nearly two lengths back, and exhausted Cornell was a sorely beaten third...
...This show depicts the Negro as a foot-shuffling handkerchief-head," snapped Chicago Urban League Director Edwin Berry. "A lazy, soft-shoe jokester is an insult," added Joan Kehoe, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Both groups planned protests, and it looked like check and double check for Amos 'n' Andy, the radio duo born in Chicago in 1928, whose return in a filmed CBS television series had been announced by Chicago station WCIU. However, WCIU's President John Weigel is no man to get regusted. "When you try to expurge folklore," he retorted...